Eswaran Sridharan
Biographic Data
| ID | 332090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eswaran Sridharan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eswaran |
| FAMILY NAME | Sridharan |
| SIGNATURE | SRIDHARAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics
This volume represents an attempt to provide as complete an overview of contemporary Indian politics as possible. While it takes into account the changes that have taken place since the 2014 and 2019 general elections, it situates these changes in the longer run-up to these developments, thereby covering both the long-term trajectories of Indian politics and important changes in the recent past and the present. To that end it deals with political…
Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics
India in 2020
The year 2020 was one of multiple challenges for India and for the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government. The year began with mass protests against the Citizen (Amendment) Act, which minority Muslims saw as threatening their citizen rights and was widely felt to be unconstitutional, and ended with mass protests by farmers against market-oriented farm reforms. The coronavirus pandemic arrived in January and by the end of the year had caused t…
Cross-state learning and service delivery in India’s federal system
This paper attempts to place the issue of cross-state learning and borrowing experiences in service delivery in India in the specific context of political incentives in India’s federal democracy as well relating it to the findings of the comparative literature on subnational policy diffusion in federal systems. It presents four types of borrowing experiences from a selection of six case studies of the past few years, and point towards ways in whi…
India in 2019
The major development in India in 2019 was the national election which returned Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party to power with a larger majority and which, along with post-election ideological assertiveness, poses the question of whether India’s party system is a new one-party hegemony, this time of the Bharatiya Janata
Ascending India and its state capacity: Extraction, violence and legitimacy
Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy
Journal Article Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy Get access Eswaran Sridharan Eswaran Sridharan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 51–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiw008 Published: 01 January 2017
The Shifting Party Balance
This article reviews the state of India’s two major national parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress party), seventy years after independence in 1947 and three years after the BJP won a majority in the 2014 national election. The article looks at whether these parties are top-down or decentralized in their functioning and how else they might differ. It concludes that while the BJP is on the asce…
Can umbrella parties survive? The decline of the Indian National Congress
This paper analyses the defeat of the Congress party in the India’s 2014 election in which it plummeted to its lowest ever vote share (19 per cent) and seat tally (44 of 543). We argue that the defeat is the end result of a gradual decline punctuated by recoveries that began much earlier. We show that the Congress was gradually becoming less competitive in more and more states and constituencies as indicated by its falling to third position or wo…
The Political Context of Economic Cooperation in Asia: The Relation between Trade Integration and Security Rivalries
This article lays out the overarching context of economic cooperation in Asia and discusses the two big questions: the strategic consequences of economic integration in Asia and the economic consequences of the lack of a security consensus in Asia. The rise of China is central to both. China’s economic rise has led to the rapid growth of Asian economic integration as well as given rise to security rivalries, both land and maritime, all around its…
Incumbency, internal processes and renomination in Indian parties
This paper analyses a critical aspect of the internal functioning of five major Indian political parties, namely the nomination of candidates for parliamentary elections, focusing on the pattern of renomination of former candidates and incumbents. The data are analysed against the literature on the structure and functioning of Indian parties, and interview material on the process of nomination in the 2009 and 2004 elections. From the perspective …
Is the Coalition Era Over in Indian Politics
This paper analyses whether the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s 2014 general election in which it won a majority of seats after seven successive elections from 1989 to 2009 that resulted in hung parliaments and minority governments, mostly minority coalitions, means the end of the coalition era in Indian politics and the beginning of a new era of one-party majority dominated by the BJP, reminiscent of the Congress-dominated…
India's Watershed Vote: Behind Modi’s Victory
This article analyses the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s 2014 election. It focuses on possible reasons for the pro-BJP swing, looking at turnout, regional concentration of BJP votes, voting patterns of key social segments, the Modi factor, and the campaign, against the backdrop of a slowing economy, inflation, and corruption. It concludes that the BJP swing was not so much a vote for Hindu nationalism as for the promise of effec…
Drift and Confusion Reign in Indian Politics
[T]he prospect of India without a stable governing coalition—whether established by the Congress Party, by the BJP, or by regional parties supported by either the Congress or the BJP—is not beyond the realm of possibility
How India Can Fill Its Bandwagon
If India can create a vibrant regional economic community around itself, the gains will be not just economic but geopolitical in both the Asian and global contexts
Why are multi-party minority governments viable in India? Theory and comparison
This paper attempts to explain the apparently exceptional pattern of coalition politics in India compared to international patterns – the prevalence of minority governments and among them, minority coalitions, among non-single party majority governments, as well as the predominance of very large coalitions of 6–12 parties – in the light of theorising on coalition and minority governments and the specificities of India's political institutions. It…
Party system change in South India: Political entrepreneurs, patterns and processes
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction: South Asia and Theories of Nuclear Deterrence: Subcontinental Perspectives
International Relations Theory and the India–Pakistan Conflict
Coalition strategies and the BJP's expansion, 1989–2004
This paper analyses the expansion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across India's states from 1989 to 2004 through its strategy of coalition-building. The paper shows that the BJP leveraged its perceived pivotality as a third party in several states to form state-level electoral coalitions on progressively better terms with state-level first or second parties, so to be able to expand across states, exploiting the incentives facing parties at t…
Improving Indo-Pakistan relations: International relations theory, nuclear deterrence and possibilities for economic cooperation
The India–Pakistan relationship, after the overt nuclearisation in May 1998, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, the border mobilisation of 2002 and the continuing insurgency in Kashmir, remains tense. This paper explores the possibility of economic cooperation—including both trade and common infrastructure projects—taking place and spilling over into security cooperation. It analyses why past economic cooperation was so minimal, and why the only major …
The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Class: Its Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization
Coalitions and Party Strategies in India's Parliamentary Federation
This article analyzes the coalition strategies of national and regional parties in India's federal parliamentary, single-member district, simple-plurality system during the evolution of the national party system from a one-party dominant system to a fragmented, multiparty system. The focus is on the compatibilities between the strategies for expansion and consolidation of power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a range of regional parties w…
The Capacity for Innovation and the Trajectory of the Indian IT Industry
The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Class: Its Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization
India's Watershed Vote: Behind Modi’s Victory
This article analyses the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s 2014 election. It focuses on possible reasons for the pro-BJP swing, looking at turnout, regional concentration of BJP votes, voting patterns of key social segments, the Modi factor, and the campaign, against the backdrop of a slowing economy, inflation, and corruption. It concludes that the BJP swing was not so much a vote for Hindu nationalism as for the promise of effec…
Coalitions and Party Strategies in India's Parliamentary Federation
This article analyzes the coalition strategies of national and regional parties in India's federal parliamentary, single-member district, simple-plurality system during the evolution of the national party system from a one-party dominant system to a fragmented, multiparty system. The focus is on the compatibilities between the strategies for expansion and consolidation of power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a range of regional parties w…
Incumbency, internal processes and renomination in Indian parties
This paper analyses a critical aspect of the internal functioning of five major Indian political parties, namely the nomination of candidates for parliamentary elections, focusing on the pattern of renomination of former candidates and incumbents. The data are analysed against the literature on the structure and functioning of Indian parties, and interview material on the process of nomination in the 2009 and 2004 elections. From the perspective …
Why are multi-party minority governments viable in India? Theory and comparison
This paper attempts to explain the apparently exceptional pattern of coalition politics in India compared to international patterns – the prevalence of minority governments and among them, minority coalitions, among non-single party majority governments, as well as the predominance of very large coalitions of 6–12 parties – in the light of theorising on coalition and minority governments and the specificities of India's political institutions. It…
Coalition strategies and the BJP's expansion, 1989–2004
This paper analyses the expansion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across India's states from 1989 to 2004 through its strategy of coalition-building. The paper shows that the BJP leveraged its perceived pivotality as a third party in several states to form state-level electoral coalitions on progressively better terms with state-level first or second parties, so to be able to expand across states, exploiting the incentives facing parties at t…
Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy
Journal Article Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy Get access Eswaran Sridharan Eswaran Sridharan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 51–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiw008 Published: 01 January 2017
Is the Coalition Era Over in Indian Politics
This paper analyses whether the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s 2014 general election in which it won a majority of seats after seven successive elections from 1989 to 2009 that resulted in hung parliaments and minority governments, mostly minority coalitions, means the end of the coalition era in Indian politics and the beginning of a new era of one-party majority dominated by the BJP, reminiscent of the Congress-dominated…
Improving Indo-Pakistan relations: International relations theory, nuclear deterrence and possibilities for economic cooperation
The India–Pakistan relationship, after the overt nuclearisation in May 1998, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, the border mobilisation of 2002 and the continuing insurgency in Kashmir, remains tense. This paper explores the possibility of economic cooperation—including both trade and common infrastructure projects—taking place and spilling over into security cooperation. It analyses why past economic cooperation was so minimal, and why the only major …
India in 2020
The year 2020 was one of multiple challenges for India and for the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government. The year began with mass protests against the Citizen (Amendment) Act, which minority Muslims saw as threatening their citizen rights and was widely felt to be unconstitutional, and ended with mass protests by farmers against market-oriented farm reforms. The coronavirus pandemic arrived in January and by the end of the year had caused t…
India in 2019
The major development in India in 2019 was the national election which returned Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party to power with a larger majority and which, along with post-election ideological assertiveness, poses the question of whether India’s party system is a new one-party hegemony, this time of the Bharatiya Janata
The Shifting Party Balance
This article reviews the state of India’s two major national parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress party), seventy years after independence in 1947 and three years after the BJP won a majority in the 2014 national election. The article looks at whether these parties are top-down or decentralized in their functioning and how else they might differ. It concludes that while the BJP is on the asce…
Can umbrella parties survive? The decline of the Indian National Congress
This paper analyses the defeat of the Congress party in the India’s 2014 election in which it plummeted to its lowest ever vote share (19 per cent) and seat tally (44 of 543). We argue that the defeat is the end result of a gradual decline punctuated by recoveries that began much earlier. We show that the Congress was gradually becoming less competitive in more and more states and constituencies as indicated by its falling to third position or wo…
Economic liberalisation and India's political economy: Towards a paradigm synthesis
Leadership Time Horizons in India: The Impact on Economic Restructuring
Research Article| December 01 1991 Leadership Time Horizons in India: The Impact on Economic Restructuring E. Sridharan E. Sridharan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (12): 1200–1213. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645399 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …
Economic liberalisation and India's political economy: Towards a paradigm synthesis
The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: Indian, Brazilian, and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective 1969-1994
Sridharan provides an interpretative comparison of the political economy of policy and development of a new industry—electronics—in three major developing countries —India, Brazil, and Korea—over a quarter of a century. Electronics, defined to encompass the entire microelectronics-based complex of industries, is the epitome of a new industry for developing countries. Promoting it involves all the dilemmas of industrial policy for developing count…
The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective 1969-1994
The Capacity for Innovation and the Trajectory of the Indian IT Industry
Coalitions and Party Strategies in India's Parliamentary Federation
This article analyzes the coalition strategies of national and regional parties in India's federal parliamentary, single-member district, simple-plurality system during the evolution of the national party system from a one-party dominant system to a fragmented, multiparty system. The focus is on the compatibilities between the strategies for expansion and consolidation of power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a range of regional parties w…
The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Class: Its Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization
Introduction: South Asia and Theories of Nuclear Deterrence: Subcontinental Perspectives
International Relations Theory and the India–Pakistan Conflict
Coalition strategies and the BJP's expansion, 1989–2004
This paper analyses the expansion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across India's states from 1989 to 2004 through its strategy of coalition-building. The paper shows that the BJP leveraged its perceived pivotality as a third party in several states to form state-level electoral coalitions on progressively better terms with state-level first or second parties, so to be able to expand across states, exploiting the incentives facing parties at t…
Improving Indo-Pakistan relations: International relations theory, nuclear deterrence and possibilities for economic cooperation
The India–Pakistan relationship, after the overt nuclearisation in May 1998, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, the border mobilisation of 2002 and the continuing insurgency in Kashmir, remains tense. This paper explores the possibility of economic cooperation—including both trade and common infrastructure projects—taking place and spilling over into security cooperation. It analyses why past economic cooperation was so minimal, and why the only major …
Introduction to the Special Issue
How India Can Fill Its Bandwagon
If India can create a vibrant regional economic community around itself, the gains will be not just economic but geopolitical in both the Asian and global contexts
Why are multi-party minority governments viable in India? Theory and comparison
This paper attempts to explain the apparently exceptional pattern of coalition politics in India compared to international patterns – the prevalence of minority governments and among them, minority coalitions, among non-single party majority governments, as well as the predominance of very large coalitions of 6–12 parties – in the light of theorising on coalition and minority governments and the specificities of India's political institutions. It…
Party system change in South India: Political entrepreneurs, patterns and processes
Drift and Confusion Reign in Indian Politics
[T]he prospect of India without a stable governing coalition—whether established by the Congress Party, by the BJP, or by regional parties supported by either the Congress or the BJP—is not beyond the realm of possibility
The Political Context of Economic Cooperation in Asia: The Relation between Trade Integration and Security Rivalries
This article lays out the overarching context of economic cooperation in Asia and discusses the two big questions: the strategic consequences of economic integration in Asia and the economic consequences of the lack of a security consensus in Asia. The rise of China is central to both. China’s economic rise has led to the rapid growth of Asian economic integration as well as given rise to security rivalries, both land and maritime, all around its…
Incumbency, internal processes and renomination in Indian parties
This paper analyses a critical aspect of the internal functioning of five major Indian political parties, namely the nomination of candidates for parliamentary elections, focusing on the pattern of renomination of former candidates and incumbents. The data are analysed against the literature on the structure and functioning of Indian parties, and interview material on the process of nomination in the 2009 and 2004 elections. From the perspective …
Is the Coalition Era Over in Indian Politics
This paper analyses whether the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s 2014 general election in which it won a majority of seats after seven successive elections from 1989 to 2009 that resulted in hung parliaments and minority governments, mostly minority coalitions, means the end of the coalition era in Indian politics and the beginning of a new era of one-party majority dominated by the BJP, reminiscent of the Congress-dominated…
India's Watershed Vote: Behind Modi’s Victory
This article analyses the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s 2014 election. It focuses on possible reasons for the pro-BJP swing, looking at turnout, regional concentration of BJP votes, voting patterns of key social segments, the Modi factor, and the campaign, against the backdrop of a slowing economy, inflation, and corruption. It concludes that the BJP swing was not so much a vote for Hindu nationalism as for the promise of effec…
Can umbrella parties survive? The decline of the Indian National Congress
This paper analyses the defeat of the Congress party in the India’s 2014 election in which it plummeted to its lowest ever vote share (19 per cent) and seat tally (44 of 543). We argue that the defeat is the end result of a gradual decline punctuated by recoveries that began much earlier. We show that the Congress was gradually becoming less competitive in more and more states and constituencies as indicated by its falling to third position or wo…
Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy
Journal Article Where is India headed? Possible future directions in Indian foreign policy Get access Eswaran Sridharan Eswaran Sridharan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 51–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiw008 Published: 01 January 2017
The Shifting Party Balance
This article reviews the state of India’s two major national parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress party), seventy years after independence in 1947 and three years after the BJP won a majority in the 2014 national election. The article looks at whether these parties are top-down or decentralized in their functioning and how else they might differ. It concludes that while the BJP is on the asce…
Ascending India and its state capacity: Extraction, violence and legitimacy
Cross-state learning and service delivery in India’s federal system
This paper attempts to place the issue of cross-state learning and borrowing experiences in service delivery in India in the specific context of political incentives in India’s federal democracy as well relating it to the findings of the comparative literature on subnational policy diffusion in federal systems. It presents four types of borrowing experiences from a selection of six case studies of the past few years, and point towards ways in whi…
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